Favorite Poet

[Admin]

Who is your favorite poet? Personally I really like John Donne.

This one is one of my favorites:

http://www.online-literature.com/donne/371/

[Admin]

Another one I like is T.S. Eliot. Then also alot of the romantic poets. Keats, Wordsworth, etc.

[gmhill]

I would like to say Kenneth Slessor is one of my favourite poets, and my favourite poem I forgot the name of >:-(
It is the one with the raven above the door, very interesting...

[Admin]

You're not thinking of Poe are you?

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/335/

[gmhill]

Well admin, I spent all day looking for that poem and you had it! Your a genuis!
Only if there were more like you

This poem is my favourite and again I thank you for finding it for me

[vladline]

My favorite poem is by Rudyard Kipling, titled "If". Click on this link to see it!

http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/836/

Another favorite of mine is "Tichborne's Elegy" by Chidiock Tichborne supposedly written right before he was executed.
Click here to see that poem!

http://slate.msn.com/poem/01-01-02/poem.asp

For me personally these two poems hold a profoundly important message about the value of life and what it can teach us. Enjoy!

[Vinessa]

Sylvia Plath.

[wmchichiri]

Wow favorite poet, that's a hard one.

I love Emily Dickinson for her amazing melodic rhymes.

I love Robert Frost for the story-teller quality he has.

I love T.S. Eliot, who else could turn out something like "burnt-out ends of smokey days" ?

I love Maya Angelou, and have had the pleasure of seeing her read in person. That was phenomenal.

I love Poe's stuff. Specifically City in the Sea.

Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake.

Tolkien's ring poem

you know "one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

[russb]

how about Pablo Neruda? in my darker moments i like Baudelaire also

[Alexis]

Neruda's pretty cool, as are Wordsworth and Frost - I think I usually prefer pictures than deep meanings, altho meanings can be fun too =]

So many poets to chose from! I do like The Ancient Mariner, and Xanadu... and I read the Divine Comedy [translated] last year, which was great. Find a blank verse translation of the Iliad [Lattimore's is best, I think] and you're away...

[FrostyAffairs]

My favorite poet is and always has been Emily Dickenson for many reasons. I think it may be because through her self seclusion, I feel, she expressed seclusion in much of her work. I feel every writer, philosopher, thinker, and genius must experience seclusion. Still, I hold great respect for many other poets. We have been graced with genius much in literature and no one should be forgotten.

[MortalFool]

I'm doing a report on Emily Dickinson right now...... Great stuff.

[bjz34]

Found this just surfing the net. Don't know if he is famous or whatever, but the poetry is very interesting. Some of it is very dark and some is just plain romantic.

http://weeping_angels.tripod.com

[Ahania]

Hello all. I just discovered this forum. I have been hoping to find one for a while now. So hereI am. My favourite poet is William Blake. I find the mythic nature of his work simply breathtaking. I also like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats as well as the works of Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan.

[feign]

percy shelly, poe. a lot of reading though.